Grandma Yan’s guess was very accurate. Yan Ru returned to Yanjia Bay the next day. Yan Xiaomin did not follow him. She deliberately avoided him.

Yan Xiaomin was going to come back with them, so there were some things she couldn't say.

All the fir trees in the house had been cut down and piled under the eaves. The carpenters were also called to make furniture. Yan Ru came back empty-handed, but when he saw two carpenters working, he felt very proud.

They said they would not make furniture for her, but they did it anyway. The Yan family always says one thing and means another.

"Grandpa! Grandma! Dad! Mom! I'm back." Yan Ru shouted all the way into the house, but no one paid any attention to her.

Grandpa Yan and Grandma Yan were pulling palm leaves. The raincoat had not been made yet and they needed more palm leaves. Yan Fengchai was helping the carpenter with the saw. Lan Guihua was washing clothes. Yan Hui and Yan Jun were away at school.

"Dad! I know you love me the most. Not only do I need a large wardrobe, a chest of drawers, a bunk bed, and a dressing table, but I also need a large wooden basin for washing clothes, a small wooden basin for washing feet, a washbasin stand, a desk, a dining table, and six stools. We have so much fir wood at home, so these are enough."

Grandpa Yan grabbed a handful of palm leaves and told her as he pulled them apart: "This furniture is not made for you, but for Chuchu. She is getting married on May 1st."

Hearing this, Yan Ru was furious.

Chen Chuchu? Why is it Chen Chuchu again? Why is she everywhere?

"Grandpa! How can you be so partial? I was the first one to ask for furniture, why didn't you make it for me first? Chen Chuchu said you guys should give it to me if I want it, but I said you guys shouldn't give it to me if I want it, isn't that too partial?"

Even if I'm not your biological child, you raised me, right? A relationship of more than ten years is not as good as a daughter you've known for just one day, right? "

Grandma Yan put down the palm leaf in her hand and looked up at Yan Ru: "Do you still know that we have raised you for more than ten years? Do you still know that we raised you? After you went to your aunt's house, have you ever come back to visit?"

"Grandma! It's not that I don't want to come back, it's my aunt who won't let me come back. I'm not enjoying life in their house, I'm working as a nanny." Yan Ru thought about the grievances she had suffered in Yan Xiaomin's house over the years and burst into tears. "My aunt made me do everything. She went to class every day and she didn't even help to fix a fallen oil bottle when she got home. How could I have the time to come back?"

Lan Guihua sneered: "You don't have time to come back, so why can't you write a letter? It's obvious that you don't want to come back. Don't use your aunt as an excuse."

Grandma Yan followed up, "You and your aunt are the same. You look down on us because we are from the countryside and don't want to associate with us. Yan Ru! Now that you are out, you make your own decisions. We can't control you. Don't even think about the things at home."

"No, I must have a share of the things in the house." Yan Ru's voice became louder, his eyes widened, and he was furious. "I grew up in this family, why shouldn't you give it to me?

Why should I give the furniture I want to Chen Chuchu? Isn't it enough that she has such a good family background? Why does she come to steal my things? "

When she made a noise, the neighbors next door came to watch the fun.

"They didn't steal your things." Someone saw the injustice and kindly explained to Yan Ru, "It was your grandparents, dad and mom who volunteered to beat her."

"Chu Chu gave the money, why don't you give your parents 500 yuan and ask them to help you make furniture."

"Yan Ru! Don't cry at home. No one's things are blown away by the wind. You want your family to make furniture for you, but you don't want to spend a penny. Where in the world can you find such a good thing? I'm not saying anything to you, but you can't be so selfish."

"I heard that Chuchu gave the family 500 yuan to repair the house as soon as she came back. Your house is in such a mess, it needs repairing. You haven't been back for so many years, aren't you afraid that something bad will happen to your family?"

Yan Ru was still crying, squatting on the ground, covering her face: "I don't have a high salary like Chen Chuchu, she comes home to show off, how can I compare. I don't have 500 yuan, but I have 5 yuan.

I don't care. I also have a share of the fir wood in the house. Whatever furniture is made for Chen Chuchu, it must be made for me. You can't be so partial and treat me badly just because I'm your adopted daughter."

Grandma Yan was so angry that she laughed: "We treat you badly? What about you? Have you treated us badly? You can ask your family to make furniture for you. If they don't have 500 yuan, they should have 400 yuan, right?

You are in the military art troupe, and your monthly salary must be high, right? To make furniture, you need not only fir wood, but also carpenters and painters, who need to be paid and fed. What can we give them?"

"That's a family matter. I don't care."

Yan Ru was so unreasonable that everyone around him felt he was being unreasonable.

"You were raised by your aunt. It's ok that you were unreasonable when you were young, but you're still like this when you grow up. You were not taught well by the army. No wonder your biological parents are prisoners of forced labor."

"This kind of person is hopeless. You really can't give her this furniture. You'd be heartless whether you give it to her or not. Why bother?"

"I now know why Guihua didn't go to the army to look for her all these years. Fortunately, she didn't go. If she had taken ten or eight yuan home, I guess she would have dug up the dirt on the ground and taken it away when she got married."

Yan Fengchai was tired from sawing wood, so he sat down to take a break. The carpenter next to him picked up the teacup and drank water.

"I've been to many places making furniture. I know Liu Degui from Sanduo Village. That couple is a bunch of ruthless people.

That year, I went out to work as an apprentice for the first time. I went to Sanduo Village to make furniture for someone. Liu Degui brought me a stool with a broken leg to repair. I thought that since it was my first time working in a village, I would just repair it and make a good friend.

Unexpectedly, after the repair, he was not satisfied at all and said that I had broken it. He said that his stool was inherited from his ancestors and he had to pay for it. If I didn't pay, he would lie in front of me and refused to leave.

Later, I had no choice but to compensate him with five yuan, which meant that I worked in Sanduo Village for nothing. From then on, no matter who asked me to repair something, I would try to refuse, for fear of falling into someone's trap.

Looking at the crying Yan Ru, Lan Guihua's brows were furrowed. Although she was prepared for Yan Ru to come back and make trouble, she still felt indescribable when she faced her.

Why can't they teach their children well after working so hard to raise them? Even if the couple is uneducated and can't teach their children well, why are they still like this after serving in the army for six or seven years?

It really proves the old saying "It is easy to change the country but difficult to change one's nature". People's temperament is innate and difficult to teach.

"Yan Ru! Don't cry, and don't even think about giving five dollars to a beggar." Yan Fengchai sighed deeply and said earnestly, "When you get married, don't even think about furniture. I'll make you a pair of camphorwood boxes, a large wooden basin for washing clothes, and two small wooden basins for washing feet.

After all, you have been in our family for fifteen years. Regardless of whether you consider us your parents or not, and whether you look down on us or not, this is the last time we will save your face. There will be no more."

Yan Ru was not satisfied and refused sarcastically: "If you don't give me furniture, who would want an empty camphorwood box? I don't want it. Leave it all to Chen Chuchu! Let's break up from now on."